The source is the sandy bed of the Great South Bay where Mr. Mentzel has planted wooden stakes marking his favorite fishing spots.

Liet had scrambled up the ropes with familiar moves, planting stakes to secure himself.

If they'd planted stakes and other obstacles, several centuries would dismount and cut a path for the rest.

Believing it to be an island, they beach their ship alongside it, and disembarking, they plant stakes and tie up the ships.

Teams of men between the columns planted sharp stakes in the ground, until every breach bristled with staves.

Cassibelanus, forewarned, had planted stakes beneath the waterline of the Thames which gut Caesar's ships, drowning thousands of men.

In any case, Mr. Hearst is planting metal stakes on potential housing sites.

The Aztecs also planted sharpened stakes in the lake floor to impale Spanish ships.

"It makes me sad," said Mr. Rodriguez, who has in the last few weeks opened up a store in Baton Rouge, where he planted stakes after first fleeing to stay with relatives in Houston.

Its construction was extremely unusual for a race track, in that it was designed and constructed without consulting engineers, and using just one surveyor (whose primary job was to plant stakes) to help.